JOSH HERE IS THE LINK TO IT

RADIO SHACK CLOSING DOORS

CHECK PAGE 2 Forecast store closings: 450 to 550

Earlier this month, RadioShack's long-term prospects as a viable company took another hit when its partnership with Target ended after neither side could come up with a mutually beneficial deal. The company had operated mobile kiosks at 1,500 Target locations across the country. Shares of the consumer electronics company are down by roughly 68% over the past year. The company recorded an operating loss of nearly $60 million in the third quarter of 2012. Same-store sales in the quarter dropped by 1.6% year-over-year. Revenue in the quarter fell by 3.8% year-over-year. Between 2010 and 2011, the company closed 2.2% of its existing locations - more than 120 locations in all.

Wow, I hadn't heard about Radio Shack being in that much trouble, although it has seemed obvious for a while. My local shack is in a strip mall that almost every other store has left and that will be torn down when the remaining lease holders move out, and Radio Shack doesn't seem to be making any moves to look for a new location and has different new employees every time I go in.

That is going to hurt on the East coast where we don't have Fryes. Sometimes you just need a component today, and Radio Shack is the only game in town for things like project boxes, LED's, Resisters, etc....

Alan

@fxrtst DJ has hinted at an upcoming release of "Robot Revolution" without providing much detail, and his posts do seem to indicate this is a permanent price change, not a sale.

Alan

i used to go to radio shack alot a long time ago,but now there is DIGIKEY,MOUSER,NEWARK AND ALLIED that you can get parts so very cheap with postage,RADIO SHACK is much much high on electronic parts,toys and the rest can easy get it at amazon or walmart

Only may be good,is might be able to get the parts a little sooner,but with digikey i always get my parts in 3-4 days ,no tax or gas money.postage is about $4

I applied for a job at radio shack for fun , I recieved an email back I was not qualified for the sales position. :/ oh really? Thats why they are going out of business lol

its a shame losing another ICON store to walmart mostly,just like best buy and many others

It is a long term price change

We have had a very successful year; both financially and personally. I've achieved many goals... Heck, because all of you I've passed my goals! I didn't expect to ship so many kits and ez-b's in 2012. We were having a 2013 planning meeting one day... And during the meeting I kept seeing the revenue numbers from 2012 and could barely believe how awesome they were. Suddenly it occurred to me! We need to drop our prices. We need to give back to the community. We need to help even more people build their dream robots!

So, rather than buying Lamborghini's... We are buying the world more EZ-Robots

As for the delay in shipping - it is due to a few large orders that has used up our inventory our delay is due to the microchips. They are custom manufactured for us pre-programmed. And our inventory buffer hasn't been able to keep up with demand. We are scaling inventory again. It seems we have to scale every 3 months. Pretty neat!

Tell you all something funny. Even though so much has happened over the year, nothing has changed in the forefront. We still make awesome features. We still listen to the community. We still are us! And that's awesome. The interesting challenge I face is maintaining that service as more responsibilities are loaded on us. But, it's what makes us unique

The other day I needed an EZ-B for a project. I also needed some servos. So you know what I did? Logged onto ez-robot.com and ordered them. Wierd hey? I now have to order my own parts from my own company... Got a chuckle out of that!

I for one am glad you are still the same and still make awesome features, listen to the community etc. That is what makes EZ-Robots stand out from almost everyone else.